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Salammbo-Part46_Gustave Flaubert(1821-1880)_Translated Works(翻译文学)-第2页

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wind; but their chins still rested upon their breasts, and their

bodies had fallen somewhat, in spite of the nails in their arms, which



were fastened higher than their heads; from their heels and hands

blood fell in big, slow drops, as ripe fruit falls from the branches



of a tree,--and Carthage, gulf, mountains, and plains all appeared to

them to be revolving like an immense wheel; sometimes a cloud of dust,



rising from the ground, enveloped them in its eddies; they burned with

horrible thirst, their tongues curled in their mouths, and they felt



an icy sweat flowing over them with their departing souls.

Nevertheless they had glimpses, at an infinite depth, of streets,



marching soldiers, and the swinging of swords; and the tumult of

battle reached them dimly like the noise of the sea to shipwrecked men



dying on the masts of a ship. The Italiotes, who were sturdier than

the rest, were still shrieking. The Lacedaemonians were silent, with



eyelids closed; Zarxas, once so vigorous, was bending like a broken

reed; the Ethiopian beside him had his head thrown back over the arms



of the cross; Autaritus was motionless, rolling his eyes; his great

head of hair, caught in a cleft in the wood, fell straight upon his



forehead, and his death-rattle seemed rather to be a roar of anger. As

to Spendius, a strange courage had come to him; he despised life now



in the certainty which he possessed of an almost immediate and an

eternal emancipation, and he awaited death with impassibility.



Amid their swooning, they sometimes started at the brushing of

feathers passing across their lips. Large wings swung shadows around



them, croakings sounded in the air; and as Spendius's cross was the

highest, it was upon his that the first vulture alighted. Then he



turned his face towards Autaritus, and said slowly to him with an

unaccountable smile:



"Do you remember the lions on the road to Sicca?"

"They were our brothers!" replied the Gaul, as he expired.



The Suffet, meanwhile, had bored through the walls and reached the

citadel. The smoke suddenly disappeared before a gust of wind,



discovering the horizon as far as the walls of Carthage; he even

thought that he could distinguish people watching on the platform of



Eschmoun; then, bringing back his eyes, he perceived thirty crosses of

extravagant size on the shore of the Lake, to the left.



In fact, to render them still more frightful" target="_blank" title="a.可怕的；不愉快的">frightful, they had been

constructed with tent-poles fastened end to end, and the thirty



corpses of the Ancients appeared high up in the sky. They had what

looked like white butterflies on their breasts; these were the



feathers of the arrows which had been shot at them from below.

A broad gold ribbon shone on the summit of the highest; it hung down



to the shoulder, there being no arm on that side, and Hamilcar had

some difficulty in recognising Hanno. His spongy bones had given way



under the iron pins, portions of his limbs had come off, and nothing

was left on the cross but shapeless remains, like the fragments of



animals that are hung up on huntsmen's doors.

The Suffet could not have known anything about it; the town in front



of him masked everything that was beyond and behind; and the captains

who had been successively sent to the two generals had not re-



appeared. Then fugitives arrived with the tale of the rout, and the

Punic army halted. This catastrophe, falling upon them as it did in



the midst of their victory, stupefied them. Hamilcar's orders were no

longer listened to.



Matho took advantage of this to continue his ravages among the

Numidians.



Hanno's camp having been overthrown, he had returned against them. The

elephants came out; but the Mercenaries advanced through the plain



shaking about flaming firebrands, which they had plucked from the

walls, and the great beasts, in fright, ran headlong into the gulf,



where they killed one another in their struggles, or were drowned

beneath the weight of their cuirasses. Narr' Havas had already



launched his cavalry; all threw themselves face downwards upon the

ground; then, when the horses were within three paces of them, they



sprang beneath their bellies, ripped them open with dagger-strokes,

and half the Numidians had perished when Barca came up.



The exhausted Mercenaries could not withstand his troops. They retired

in good order to the mountain of the Hot Springs. The Suffet was



prudent enough not to pursue them. He directed his course to the




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